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...first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved up to foreman at a time when a foreman's traditional duty was to lick any man he could not persuade. Later Harry Sheldon became plant manager, moved into a white-collar office...
...Republicans eager to lick the New Deal, any bandwagon was a terrible temp tation. The angry, selfish old men of the political sea could not control their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York...
...Hell with Them!" Urging formation of a Townsend third party in a letter to Clements last September, Dr. Townsend wrote: "I tell you, Old Fellow, the way for us to lick the stuffing out of the old parties is to become militant and go after them hammer and tongs for being totally incompetent, as we know they are. . . . We should begin ... to talk about the 'Townsend Party,' not wait in the foolish hope that one of the old groups will adopt us. If they do, they will treat us like poor adopted trash. To hell with them...
...room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian War were convinced that there was just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League of Nations. In secret recommendations to the Foreign Office, the committee added this warning: ''The Government must move with the utmost caution...
...daily surge of press headlines, but by a dispassionate dipping into public sentiment far from the source of the immediate excitement. When Mr. Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...